Sunday, 24 October 2021

Sir David Amess: Blaming social media is a distraction

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The murder on 15 October of Sir David Amess, the MP for Southend West, was horrifying by any metric. A 25-year-old has been charged and will...
Tuesday, 19 October 2021

The Tories care about people? Well, some of them don't

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If anyone ever tells you that the Conservatives don’t care about people, ignore them. The Conservative and Unionist Party most certainly car...
Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Richard Osman scores again with joyous second novel

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Back in February, I wrote that I’d just read Richard Osman’s debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club , and really enjoyed it, noting that it h...
Sunday, 13 June 2021

Politics in sport? It's not as new as wannabe culture warriors would have you think

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In 1895, rugby clubs in the north of England made the decision to break away from the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to form the Northern Union....
Sunday, 6 June 2021

Are you from the real world – or not?

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Are you real? Do you live in the real world? In order that we might all be able to judge – what paper do you read? I’m only asking because, ...
Wednesday, 2 June 2021

Hold my pint: Mentioning the 'B' word

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It has been strictly avoided. A bit like the plague. Or COVID-19 (fingers crossed, until now at least, on a personal level). But there comes...
Sunday, 30 May 2021

Back to the gallery – but Rodin is no blockbuster

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As our frenzy of COVID-19 lockdown-easing culture blitz continues, The Other Half and I nipped over to Tate Modern for The  Making of Robin ...